Negotiating a Personal Vocabulary of Abstraction: Representing an Artist’s Sense of Place

Through studio practice and exegesis, this thesis is concerned with connections between abstraction and landscape in the representation of a sense of place in art practice. It seeks ways to address the difficulties inherent in reconciling personal experience with cultural expectations or representat...

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Main Author: Sturm, Cassandra Ellen
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75676
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description Through studio practice and exegesis, this thesis is concerned with connections between abstraction and landscape in the representation of a sense of place in art practice. It seeks ways to address the difficulties inherent in reconciling personal experience with cultural expectations or representations of places. This research explores ways in which Australian artists have engaged with varying concepts of place or landscape, from their own experiences and memories, to cultural references and mythologies.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-756762019-07-25T05:55:06Z Negotiating a Personal Vocabulary of Abstraction: Representing an Artist’s Sense of Place Sturm, Cassandra Ellen Through studio practice and exegesis, this thesis is concerned with connections between abstraction and landscape in the representation of a sense of place in art practice. It seeks ways to address the difficulties inherent in reconciling personal experience with cultural expectations or representations of places. This research explores ways in which Australian artists have engaged with varying concepts of place or landscape, from their own experiences and memories, to cultural references and mythologies. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75676 Curtin University fulltext
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title Negotiating a Personal Vocabulary of Abstraction: Representing an Artist’s Sense of Place
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title_short Negotiating a Personal Vocabulary of Abstraction: Representing an Artist’s Sense of Place
title_sort negotiating a personal vocabulary of abstraction: representing an artist’s sense of place
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